lacerate
verb (used with object)
to tear roughly; mangle.
was lacerating
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past progressiveof lacerate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The man's own suffering at that moment was lacerating.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum
I was on the eve of revolting, but I remembered what there was lacerating his poor breast, and consented.
From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
But he found that they were inseparable parts of himself, and that what he was lacerating was his own flesh.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
